Thursday, August 4, 2016

If there is one
event that you ask me to name as a single transforming day in the last 100
years, I would say it was September 11th 2001. As someone who has lived and
worked across the world over the last 30 years including in the United States,
Afghanistan and Much of Europe, Far East Asia, East and South Africa and
Caribbean apart from having worked in close to 550 districts of India’s 600 odd
districts, I saw the twin towers as a symbol of eternal freedom and free
spirit. To witness their horrific collapse (due to acts of terror) into their
own foot print, perhaps faster than free fall, are images that refuse to go
away even today. Worse is the collapse of WTC 7 and that really set me
thinking!

Never in the
history of mankind, have tall multi-storied steel structures supposedly collapsed
due to fire other than three buildings (WTC North Tower, WTC South Tower and
WTC 7) – interestingly, they were all located at the same place (Lower
Manhattan, New York, USA), they all fell on the same day and they all had been
leased (just less than 100 days before their collapse) to the very same person.
Remarkable indeed and I said to myself – ‘is that a coincidence or what”. I
decided to research this issue and this book is an outcome of this quiet effort
for over 14 years. I hope to bring a very objective and highly rigorous
analytical research perspective to this transforming event, its antecedents and
consequences.

We owe this to the
American People, especially the families of the 9/11 Victims as well as the
General American Public and also the Global Community.

As I stated above,
September 11th, 2001 was a day that drastically changed the world. Without any
doubt, 9/11 is one of the world’s most horrific crimes where thousands of
(innocent) people died and we certainly need to get to the bottom of the truth.
And while what happened on 9/11 was indeed a horrific crime, my work through
these 14 years have slowly and surely convinced me that 9/11 has not been fully
and properly investigated as a crime and that is what I have attempted to do in
this book.

Using clear and
objectively verifiable facts collected painstakingly over several years, the
book shows why and how the official 9/11 commission report has (miserably)
failed to do a fair, transparent and objective analysis of the 9/11 crime and
thereby failed to fix responsibility and accountability for its actual
happening.

Specifically,
while I analyze events, incidents, evidence, statements, people, institutions
etc in an objective but critical manner, I
must underline the fact that I don’t put forward any conspiracy theories. Rather
I attempt to set the ground - in a clear and objective manner by solidly
critiquing the work of the official 9/11 commission and its final report using
strong evidence - for a new objective crime like investigation. People who read
this book and peruse the evidence will surely not be able to defend the
official 9/11 commission report, under any circumstances what-so-ever as the
evidence is solidly presented in black and white and hits a reader on face
right upfront!

While the book
builds on previous excellent work (cited in the book) with regard 9/11 done by
scholars, researchers, scientists and other stakeholders, it differs from the
existing attempts to critique the work of the 9/11 commission in several major
ways:

a)It analyses the crime of 9/11
from first principles and thereby draws up an exhaustive list of evidence that
should have been examined and people who ought to have been interviewed in
terms of how the security was breached both in air and the ground (of the most
protected place on the planet) with a focus on stakeholders involved, and
people, companies, contractors, consultants etc associated and the key
interrelationships among them.

Security companies at WTC/airports,
insurers of WTC buildings, owners, lessors and lessees etc along with
enterprise architecture consultants who worked for the FAA (Federal Aviation
Administration) and NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) and set up
the key systems (modeled on the Zachman framework who even supposedly cautioned
the use of systems based on such frameworks at FAA) among others, have been
focused upon in a microscopic manner along with their key relationships and
interrelationships. The causal analysis helps isolate responsibility and fix
accountability, something which the 9/11 report has failed to do.

b)It traces antecedents as far
back as the Iran Contra Affair, the October Surprise and the hearings way back
in 1980s when Lee Hamilton and Dick Cheney were reportedly coordinating with
each other closely. It moves through the last stage of the Nixon Presidency,
sifts through two terms of the Reagan Presidency, Bill Clinton Presidency,
George W Bush Presidency and The Obama Presidency with the George H W Bush
Presidency sandwiched between the Reagan and Clinton Presidencies.

The focus here is on pentagon policies,
accounting issues and the missing trillions, key counter terrorism policy
issues and their implementation - especially after the WTC was bombed in 1993
and Tridata Corporation (subsidiary of System Planning International) analyzed
the security breaches for the same - the major people involved in all these
decisions including those supposedly responsible (for example like Jamie
Gorelick). Interestingly, Jamie Gorelick, who became a future 9/11 commissioner,
reportedly issued a memo as Deputy Attorney General (DAG) in the Clinton
Administration) and has been cited as responsible for building the wall between
FBI and CIA - one of the most often cited reasons for the 9/11 intelligence
failure.

c)The book also explores the key
inter-relationships between various people including consultants, companies and
defense contractors and especially with future 9/11 commissioners and staff
along with a detailed microscopic exposition of associated conflicts of interest
etc and ramifications of all of the above for 9/11, as a horrific transforming event.

Again, as before every bit of evidence
including memos are presented in black and white for the reader. There are no
inferences. Plain simple facts
dominate the discourse and that would make it hard for anyone to defend the
official 9/11 report.

To give you an example, even 15 years after
the horrific 9/11 crime, we are not aware of the systemic failures that caused
it. Specifically, on 9/11, one important stakeholder who thoroughly botched up
was the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA summarily failed to not
only protect the United States airspace in the first place but also failed to
take immediate effective remedial action to protect its key (air) assets that
were turned into deadly weapons. This cannot be disputed by any one!

While several issues deserve mention in
this regard, two aspects especially appear important: a) First is FAA’s
communication with North
American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which in my opinion, was
ineffective, for some strange reason; and b) NORAD’s own response to the
hijacking, which again, is very perplexing!

Put differently, communication
emanating from FAA was ineffective to various stakeholders including NORAD and
others, who in their own manner also miserably could not provide an (effective)
collective response to the hijacking. Thus, FAA and NORAD collectively failed
to protect not only the airspace and air assets (that ultimately were used as
deadly weapons) but also precious lives (in air and on ground) and assets on
the ground.

That FAA and NORAD failed miserably in
their response on 9/11 has been widely acknowledged. But merely stating that is
simply not enough – just naming the FAA and/or NORAD is NOT sufficient. We need
to get to the bottom of the pit and ascertain how and why things panned out in
the way they did and it is here that the 9/11 commission has missed the
bus...completely...

As noted above, an often mentioned
argument is that the lack of proper and timely communication between FAA and
NORAD was responsible for much of what happened on 9/11. If communication was
sub-optimal and has been blamed for much of the systemic failure to protect air
space, air assets (including life) and ground space and assets (including
life), then it is only fair to look at systems related to communication to fix
responsibility and accountability for the 9/11 failure!

Ok folks, what are these systems?
Obviously, we are talking of information systems across the FAA that fall under
the purview of the National Airspace System (NAS). The NAS may be viewed as an
information system of systems that collectively supports all air operations in
the United States and certain oceanic areas. Viewed in this light, the NAS can
be divided conceptually into three parts:

1.Sources (or originators) of
information necessary to perform air operations.

2.Users (or beneficiaries), who
use the information to perform air operations and who, in the course of
performing them, produce additional information. In other words, users
themselves become sources as they collate and aggregate information and data

3.Access to and management of all
the information that fall between the sources and users and are produced by
these stakeholders

It is important to note that billions
of US taxpayers dollars ($) were invested in the design of FAA’s NAS that
failed so miserably in protecting airspace, life & assets on 9/11. Yet, you
will be shocked to know that the FAA’s NAS is mentioned just once and that too
very fleetingly in the 9/11 commission’s final report.

Why is this so?

If 9/11 had a systemic failure in the
communication/information systems between FAA and NOARD, then, it is not
appropriate that this communication/information system (called NAS) should be
examined closely to determine what facets caused the systemic failure?

This then leads to the next set of
questions:

a)How was the NAS designed and
implemented?

b)Who designed and implemented
it?

c)Who were all involved in the
design and implementation?

d)What were their security
clearances?

e)Did any of these stakeholders
have access to the complete

NAS or even parts of the NAS on 9/11?

f)Who else had access to the NAS
on 9/11?

g)Were there conflicts of
interests that prevented the NAS designers and implementers from being
investigated? Did any of the 9/11 commissioners and other stakeholders have
relationships with these NAS designers and implementers that prevented them
from being investigated?

h)Why were they not probed as
part of the 9/11 commission activities?

i)Plus several other questions
are explored in this book!

This is just one example and many more
such aspects are explored microscopically here in this research effort.

d)There are many more
distinguishing features but let me refrain from letting the 'cats' out of the
'bags' for now and I would urge the reader to read the book and judge for
themselves. I am sure you will find the book interesting given the above and
also given the fact that I have used my deep networks across USA, Europe,
Africa and Asia where I have lived and worked with governments and private
sector in various capacities; and

e)Most importantly, the book does
NOT advance any conspiracy theory. It relies simply on objectively verifiable
facts and provides all such evidence upfront and black and white and raises
valid questions that could help a new objective probe and thereby fix
accountability and ultimate responsibility.

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Folks, Good Morning to those
in the Orient and Good Evening to those at the Occident...Have a great
day and great evening, whichever is appropriate...
Here are the two statements by Ms Jane Garvey, who was the FAA’s Administrator during the years preceding and succeeding 9/11.

You may want to READ these carefully after you read this POST! Thanks!

It is VERY clear from these statements that Ms Jane Garvey, FAA’s
Administrator (prior to, during and after 9/11), DID NOT share
information (in her statements) on FAA’s National Airspace System and
its on-going design and implementation by NAS Information Architecture
Committee (NIAC) comprising of several stakeholders (including Defence
and Private contractors) who could have had complete access to the NAS
in its ENTIRETY on 9/11, thereby compromising the security and sanctity
of the NAS itself (hugely) on 9/11! This needs to be noted!

A
search for the words NAS, National Airspace Design, Interoperability,
NIAC, NAS Information Architecture Committee and so on in the two
statements provided by Ms Jane Garvey reveals that these words are not
found!!!

So, the question is whether at all Ms Jane Garvey did
talk about the on-going design and implementation of the NAS by NIAC to
the 9/11 commission as the process of on-going design (and going
implementation) of FAA’s NAS which took place under the aegis of the NAS
information Architecture Committee (NIAC) is something that has very
serious implications for FAA’s role as an aviation administrator on
9/11.

Please recall that the 9/11 commission in its report on page 16 stated that:
“FAA HEADQUARTERS IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE
NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM. The Operations Center located at FAA
headquarters receives notifications of incidents, including accidents
and hijackings. “ (Page 16, THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT).

And, an
often mentioned argument is that the lack of proper and timely
communication between FAA and NORAD was responsible for much of what
happened on 9/11. If communication was sub-optimal and has been blamed
for much of the systemic failure to protect air space, air assets
(including life) and ground space and assets (including life), then it
is only fair to look at systems related to communication to fix
responsibility and accountability for the 9/11 failure!

Ok
folks, what are these systems? Obviously, we are talking of information
systems across the FAA that fall under the purview of the National
Airspace System (NAS). THE NAS MAY BE VIEWED AS AN INFORMATION SYSTEM OF
SYSTEMS THAT COLLECTIVELY SUPPORTS ALL AIR OPERATIONS IN THE US AND
CERTAIN OCEANIC AREAS. Viewed in this light, the NAS can be divided
conceptually into three parts: 1. Sources of information necessary to perform air operations.
2. Users, who use the information to perform air operations and who, in
the course of performing them, produce additional information. 3. Access and management of the information between sources and users.

Billions of US taxpayers $ was invested in the design and
implementation of FAA’s NAS (which took place under the aegis of the
NIAC) that failed so miserably in protecting airspace, life & assets
on 9/11.

Yet, is it NOT strange that neither the 9/11 commission
analysed and discussed the NAS and especially issues related to its
on-going design and implementation by NIAC (which had DEFENCE and
PRIVATE contractors in its midst) nor did Ms Jane Garvey, in her two
statements, report on these issues related to the NAS and especially,
its on-going design and implementation by NIAC (which had DEFENCE and
PRIVATE contractors in its midst).

The presence of Defence and
PRIVATE contractors is very serious because those designing and
implementing the NAS could have had (and maybe did have) complete access
to the NAS on 9/11, which has huge implications for the safety and
security of the NAS.

Therefore, it is only logical to argue that
Ms Jane Garvey, SHOULD have informed the 9/11 commission on this huge
design and implementation exercise with regard NAS that was on-going
prior to and during 9/11 at the FAA. Likewise, it is the paramount duty
of the 9/11 commission to have thoroughly investigated issues related to
the huge design and implementation exercise with regard to FAA’s NAS
that was on-going prior to and during 9/11.

I am completely
STUNNED as to why neither Ms Jane Garvey nor the 9/11 commission
focussed on the huge design and implementation exercise with regard to
FAA’s NAS that was on-going prior to and during 9/11. They both owe the
American people a proper TRANSPARENT answer! And indeed this is a
serious LAPSE in the investigation of 9/11 as a (horrific) crime!

Folks, stay tuned and I have more information coming out in subsequent
posts where the saga of the design and implementation exercise with
regard to FAA’s NAS that was on-going prior to and during 9/11 will
UNFOLD...and it is HUGE indeed...

PLUS a lot, lot more...that has not been written about so far...about the 9/11 crime...

And of course, I put forward NO CONSPIRACY THEOREIS but rather PROVIDE
hard, hard EVIDENCE IS on how and why the 9/11 Commission TOTALLY failed
the American People by not investigating 9/11, the CRIME, in a proper
and thorough manner...

Was the 9/11 commission aware of the following happenings at FAA, in the years before 9/11?
That,

a) FAA's National Airspace System (NAS) Architecture was developed to
provide a high level overview of the behavioral characteristics that
would be intrinsic to the FAA's NAS.
The FAA NAS Architecture
thus described significant changes that were to be made in and outside
the FAA to meet the needs of airspace users, and to increase efficiency
and effectiveness, while accommodating global growth of airspace.

b) A critical characteristic of the FAA NAS was INTEROPERABILITY - the
capability to exchange data and information between and among
applications and platforms. THIS NEEDS EMPHASIS AS THIS WAS ONE OF THE
CORE OBJECTIVES AND IT HAS HUGE IMPLICATIONS.

c) IN JANUARY 1997,
representatives of several FAA organizations which shared understanding
of the objectives described in the Architecture joined to form the NAS
Information Architecture Committee (NIAC).

d) NIAC’s purpose was
to guide, direct and coordinate the establishment and future management
of information-based processes and procedures that accomplished
interoperability of systems across the NAS via data standardization and
data exchange. THE IMPLICATION OF THIS IS HUGE AGAIN.

e) NIAC
co-chairs (whoever they were) assembled a steering committee and
obtained funding from other FAA organizations to design and conduct a
conference to increase understanding of the implications of sharing NAS
information. PLEASE NOTE THAT NAS INFORMATION WAS TO BE SHARED.

f) The steering committee met weekly from December 1997 to April 1998 to
plan a 2-day conference for the FAA, selected government agencies, and
PRIVATE contractors (WHO WERE THEY?) who were supporting NAS operational
systems.

g) The committee identified six important issues
surrounding interoperability and prepared a list of NAS stakeholders who
were invited to participate in a discussion of those issues.

h)
The conference, ACHIEVING INTEROPERABILITY WITH A NAS COMMON DATA
ARCHITECTURE, was thus held on April 21 and 22, 1998. It was the first
of several participatory symposia on issues of interoperability.

i) Support for the ABOVE INTEROPERABILITY conference theme was presented
in letters from the FAA Administrator, Ms. Jane Garvey and the Acting
Associate Administrator for Air Traffic Services, Mr. Ron Morgan.
Incidentally, Ms Jane Garvey testified before the 9/11 commission!

j) The conference theme OF INTEROPERABILITY was also underscored in the
conference keynote address given by Dr. Anne Harlan, the Director of
the W.J. Hughes Technical Center, as well as the other presentations
made by key FAA staff, ATM experts from EuroControl, and the renowned
Systems Architect, Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin.

k) Almost 200 FAA
managers, systems engineers, analysts and PRIVATE contractor staff then
participated in six parallel Work Sessions on the key issues, and
presented recommended approaches to the full session at the end of the
conference.

l) The primary goals of the two-day conference were not only met, but several were exceeded.
In other words, the NAS was designed by the NIAC as noted above and it
has serious AND HUGE implications for 9/11 because it is this NIAC
developed NAS that failed totally on 9/11.
Right Folks, That
being the case, i am totally amazed as to why the 9/11 commission DID
NOT investigate, IN A FOCUSSED MANNER, the issues around NAS, its
design, the role of the NIAC IN DESIGNING THE NAS and so on.

Without any doubt, the Chair, Mr Thomas Kean, the Vice Chair, Mr Lee
Hamilton, Other Commissioners and the Executive Director, Mr Philip
Zelikow (and Other Staff ) have to take responsibility for this very
serious INVESTIGATION lapse by the 9/11 commission and themselves.

How can they explain this SERIOUS LAPSE made by them and the 9/11
commission? What can they say to to the American people and the global
community on this? What implications does this SERIOUS LAPSE have for
the investigation of 9/11 as a crime!

Stay tuned for more updates
and information in the coming months as we further analyse the issues
surrounding the NAS and NIAC with regard to the work of the 9/11
Commission.

“The co-chair of FAA’s NIAC and product lead in design of FAA’s NAS
said,

“NO ONE CAN DO AN EXCELLENT, COST-EFFECTIVE JOB BY THEMSELVES,
DEPENDENCY IS UNIVERSAL...OPTIMIZING EACH SYSTEM SUB-OPTIMIZES THE WHOLE
NAS...SHARING INFORMATION GLOBALLY WILL BE THE BASIS FOR FREE
FLIGHT...SHARING INFORMATION PRESUPPOSES COMMON INTERPRETATION OF
INFORMATION OTHERWISE TOO MUCH IS LOST IN TRANSLATION ($, MEANING, TIME,
AND SAFETY)...WE DON’T HAVE $ AND TIME TO WASTE ON DUPLICATIONS TO ENSURE
SAFETY” -

Profound statements indeed!

Solving the Enterprise Architecture puzzle seems
to be critical for thorough investigation of the 9/11 Crime!!!

Yet the 9/11 commission did not seem to think so... WHY?

And who was this GUY who was Co-Chair of FAA NAIC and Product LEAD in
design of NAS???????

LOOK AT THE IMAGES FROM THE 9/11 COMMISSION OFFICIAL FINAL REPORT - THEY MAKE VERY INTERESTING READING!

Ok Folks, and first of all thanks for your comments. Please have a look
at the images I attach. They clearly prove that the terms NAS, NIAC,
Interoperability, Enterprise Architecture are not EVEN mentioned in the
official 9/11 report.

The term National Airspace System appears just
once and in a small sentence and fleetingly. When understanding the
failure of the National Airspace System
(NAS) along with those who designed and implemented it (including
stakeholders in the NIAC) was extremely crucial to investigation of 9/11
as a criminal event, it is INDEED very surprising that the final 9/11
report does not even mention the NAS, NIAC, Interoperability, Enterprise
Architecture. When billions of $ of American Tax Payers money went into
an information system (NAS) that failed miserably on 9/11 to protect
the air space, air and ground assets (including life and liberty), IS IT
NOT IMPERATIVE THAT THE 9/11 COMMISSION AT LEAST INVESTIGATE ASPECTS
RELATED TO THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM INCLUDING THOSE WHO DESIGNED AND
IMPLEMENTED IT. Most importantly, many of these contractors may have
EVEN had access to FAA's complete NAS on 9/11 and that needs to be
determined and probed further.

What explanation can Mr Thomas Kean (or
Mr Lee Hamilton or Mr Philip D Zelikow) offer to Americans and the
global community regarding this very serious lapse by the 9/11
commission in its investigation! What I am stating here is just a tip of
the ICEBERG and I have much much more information laid out fully and
transparently in the book, "9/11: The Unanswered Questions".
So long folks, stay tuned for much more information over the next
couple of months.

MANY Thanks for your SUPPORT AND comments. I have already gone through
all major material on 9/11 including the links given in the comments on
the other posts...
However, my objective in writing the book is very, VERY clear –

a) To Show that the 9/11 (KEAN) commission did an extremely poor job of
investigating 9/11 as a crime and ALSO that the KEAN COMMISSION report
was a biased, partisan, subjective report that neither investigated 9/11
as a crime nor even considered each and every piece of objective AND
TANGIBLE evidence available to investigate the crime;

b) To
demonstrate the serious SHORTCOMINGS in the 9/11 COMMISSION official
report and provide TANGIBLE evidence on why it is such a poor report
based on a biased, subjective and incomplete/incompetent investigation;

c) To bring in facets of the 9/11 crime that are HITHERTO unexplored
and this is done with SOLID IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE that will help further
criminal investigation;

d) To help the 9/11 families fighting the court case with available IRREFUTABLE TANGIBLE and OBJECTIVE evidence; and

e) To Present a STRONG CASE for an INDEPENDENT AND OBJECTIVE CRIME LIKE
(re) investigation that could be carried out by a new independent body,
with no vested interest what-so-ever.

Hence, NO CONSPIRACY THEORY IS PUT FORWARD in the book! I would like to make it very clear!

Friends, 9/11 was a horrific crime and even 14 years later we are not
aware of the systemic failures that caused it. Let me give you an
example and many more such aspects are explored MICROSCOPICALLY in the
book!

On 9/11, one important stakeholder who thoroughly failed is
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA summarily failed to
not only protect its airspace in the first place but also failed to take
immediate effective remedial action to protect its key (air) assets
that were turned into deadly weapons.

Communication emanating
from FAA was ineffective to various stakeholders including NORAD and
others, who in their own manner also failed in providing an effective
collective response to the hijacking and the protection of airspace/air
assets (that ultimately were used as deadly weapons) as well as
protection of life/assets on the ground.

That FAA and NORAD
failed miserably in their response on 9/11 has been widely acknowledged.
But merely stating that is simply not enough – just indicting the FAA
and/or NORAD is NOT sufficient. We need to get to the bottom of the pit
and ascertain how and why things panned out in the way they did and it
is here that the 9/11 commission has missed the bus...completely...

As noted above, an often mentioned argument is that the lack of proper
and timely communication between FAA and NORAD was responsible for much
of what happened on 9/11. If communication was sub-optimal and has been
blamed for much of the systemic failure to protect air space, air assets
(including life) and ground space and assets (including life), then it
is only fair to look at systems related to communication to fix
responsibility and accountability for the 9/11 failure!

Ok
folks, what are these systems? Obviously, we are talking of information
systems across the FAA that fall under the National Airspace System
(NAS). The NAS may be viewed as an information system of systems that
collectively supports all air operations in the US and certain oceanic
areas. Viewed in this light, the NAS can be divided conceptually into
three parts:
1. Sources of information necessary to perform air operations.
2. Users, who use the information to perform air operations and who, in
the course of performing them, produce additional information. 3. Access and management of the information between sources and users.

Billions of US taxpayers $ was invested in the design of FAA’s NAS that
failed so miserably in protecting airspace, life & assets on 9/11.
Yet, you will be shocked to know that the NAS is mentioned just once and
that too very fleetingly in the 9/11 commission’s final report.

While it acknowledged that the NAS failed, the question arises as to
who designed the NAS? It is about time that we FIND THE STAKEHOLDERS WHO
DESIGNED & IMPLEMENTED THE NAS & INVESTIGATE THEIR ANTECEDENTS
INCLUDING SECURITY CLEARANCES AND THEIR ACCESS TO FAA’s NAS ON 9/11 AND
WHAT EXACTLY THEY WERE DOING ON 9/11? That is a starter’s imperative for
any criminal investigation of the 9/11 event.

Several other questions arise here: 1. Who developed the blueprint for the design of FAA's National Airspace System (NAS)? 2. Which individual led the design of FAA's National Airspace System (NAS)? 3. Who set up FAA's NAS Information Architecture Committee (NIAC) and mandated it with the task of designing FAA's NAS?
4. How was membership in FAA's NIAC decided in terms of criteria? Who
set these criteria? On what basis? What about the security clearances?
Who did the due diligence and who issued them? 5. Was there an
antecedent check on the participants of the NIAC? Who did it and was a
copy of security clearance with antecedent check provided to the FAA? 6. What was FAA's role in all of this? 7. What about JANE GARVEY, the administrator of the FAA? What role did she play in setting up the NIAC? Did the NIAC steering committee meet on a weekly basis in 1997 98 as the NAS design was underway? 8. Who were the coordinators of the NAIC? 9. What were their roles? 10. Which private and defence contractors were part of the NIAC? 11. How many working groups were part of the NIAC? 12. What was their mandate and what were they working on? 13. Were any technical papers published as part of the NIAC working groups? 14. What the objective of free flight path as set by the FAA's NAS? 15. What were the members of NIAC and designers of NAS doing on 9/11? Did they have access to FAA’s NAS in its entirety?
Plus many more questions!

It is really sad because FAA's NAS is the first system that should have
been subject to a thorough (criminal) investigation as were the issues
related to NIAC, Enterprise Architecture and Data Interoperability and
the like

Folks, the book, 9/11: The Unanswered Questions lays it
bare, clean and straight and the evidence is so hard hitting that I
don’t need a CONSPIRACY THEORY as a backbone. Neither the 9/11
commissioners themselves nor their famed executive director/other staff
will be able to defend their product as my book drives a crater like
hole in their official report!

Thanks and I look forward to your
support and America needs to know the truth and what happened to many
things including FAA’s NAS, NIAC, Enterprise Architecture and Data
Interoperability etc

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Did the 9/11 Commissioners (Chairman Kean, Vice Chairman Hamilton and
Individual Commissioners) and the 9/11 staff (Executive Director, Philip
Zelikow and Other Staff) have any CONFLICT(S) OF INTEREST(S), that
adversely affected the investigation of the 9/11 event as a CRIME? This
is especially a critical question given the VERY special and important
mandates provided to the 9/11 Commission by the PEOPLE of THE UNITED
STATES! Read on...folks...

What is meant by CONFLICT of INTEREST?

In this context, “A ‘conflict of interest’ is a SITUATION that arises
in which a person has a PRIVATE, PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL AND/OR FINANCIAL
INTEREST sufficient to appear to influence the objective, independent
and impartial exercise of his/her official duties as, say, a PUBLIC
OFFICIAL, an EMPLOYEE OF A PUBLIC BODY, and/or a PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATED
WITH A PUBLIC BODY like the 9/11 Commission.”

Indeed, CONFLICTS
OF INTERESTS - which are often responsible for much of the malaise
found in governance - are one of the major themes explored in the book,
"9/11: The Unanswered Questions".

In a broad sense, two key questions are explored under the ‘conflict of interest’ theme:
a. Did CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS exist in the 9/11 Commission at the Aggregate Institutional Level?
b. Did the 9/11 Commissioners (Chairman Kean, Vice Chairman Hamilton
and Individual Commissioners) and the 9/11 staff (Executive Director,
Philip Zelikow and Other Staff) have CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS at an
individual level?

The CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS issue has indeed been raised by some people including the 9/11 affected families.

What is done differently though in this book is to examine in
MICROSCOPIC DETAIL the various aspects - such as working and personal
relationships, professional associations, family ties,
political/ideological associations, co-authorship and joint publications
of books/articles on important topics (including those related to the
subject of terrorism) and other related aspects and the like - to see
whether or not the 9/11 Commissioners (Chairman Kean, Vice Chairman
Hamilton and Individual Commissioners) and the 9/11 staff (Executive
Director, Philip Zelikow and Other Staff) had any CONFLICT(S) OF
INTEREST(S) that adversely impacted the work and investigation of the
9/11 CRIME including the findings, FINAL REPORT and recommendations.

Specifically, here the book looks at whether CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS resulted in any or all of the following:

a. Whether conflicts of interests prevented a thorough and objective investigation of the 9/11 event as a CRIME?

b. Did conflicts of interests cause important pieces of information and
evidence to be removed, omitted, suppressed, tampered with etc?

c. Did conflicts of interests result in exclusion of key people,
institutions, organizations and stakeholders - including 9/11 fellow
commissioners or staff who may have been in key positions in the George H
W Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush administrations in the preceding
10-12 years - known and/or related to the 9/11 Commissioners (Chairman
Kean, Vice Chairman Hamilton and Individual Commissioners) and the 9/11
staff (Executive Director, Philip Zelikow and Other Staff) from the
OVERALL PURVIEW of the 9/11 investigation?

d. Whether conflicts
of interests undermined the IMPARTIALITY, INDEPENDENCE, PROFESSIONALISM,
OBJECTIVITY AND THOROUGHNESS of the working of the 9/11 Commission in
the investigation of the 9/11 CRIME?

e. Did CONFLICTS OF
INTERESTS lead to the ABUSE OF THE TRUST reposed BY THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES - in the 9/11 Commission, 9/11 Commissioners and 9/11
staffers – who gave them a huge and paramount mandate to investigate
9/11 as a CRIME?

f. Plus many more related issues.

The
book has analyzed the CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS issue in a very
comprehensive, objective, EVIDENCE BASED MANNER and provided all
available and necessary DETAILS in support of the arguments made. As
they often say, the DEVIL is in the DETAILS and the book strives to
substantiate its analysis of the CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS issue by
providing up to the smallest level of DETAIL (using the Principle of
Reductionism)!

And friends, stay tuned because you will truly be
amazed by what you see in the book and there is SOLID evidence (in black
and white) to substantiate the arguments made, which are far beyond
what has been publicly ever written/reported so far with regard to 9/11.
The evidence has to be seen to be believed and it is mind boggling my
friends.

The book, “9/11: The Unanswered Questions”, lays it all bare, clean and straight, with no vested interest what-so-ever!

If there is one event that you ask me to name as a
single transforming day in the last 100 years, I would say it was
September 11th 2001. As someone who has lived and worked across the
world over the last 30 years including in the United States, Afghanistan
and Much of Europe, Far East Asia, East and South Africa and Caribbean
apart from having worked in close to 550 districts of India’s 600 odd
districts, I saw the twin towers as a symbol of eternal freedom and free
spirit. To witness their horrific collapse (due to acts of terror) into
their own foot print, perhaps faster than free fall, are images that
refuse to go away even today. Worse is the collapse of WTC 7 and that
really set me thinking!

Never in the history of mankind, have
tall multi-storied steel structures SUPPOSEDLY collapsed due to fire
other than three buildings (WTC North Tower, WTC South Tower and WTC 7) –
interestingly, they were all located at the same place (Lower
Manhattan, New York, USA), they all fell on the same day and they all
had been leased (just less than 100 days before their collapse) to the
very same person. Remarkable indeed and I said to myself – ‘is that a
coincidence or what”. I decided to research this issue and this book is
an outcome of this quiet effort for over 14 years. I hope to bring a
VERY OBJECTIVE and HIGHLY RIGOROUS ANALYTICAL RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE to
this transforming event, its antecedents and consequences.

We
OWE this to the American People, especially the families of the 9/11
Victims as well as the General American Public and also the Global
Community.

I am really excited TO SAY that I have just completed
THIS book, “9/11: THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS” and it is slated for release
worldwide in May 2016 through Authors Upfront.
As I stated
above, September 11th, 2001 was a day that drastically changed the
world. Without any doubt, 9/11 is one of the world’s most horrific
crimes where thousands of (innocent) people died and we certainly need
to get to the bottom of the truth. And while what happened on 9/11 was
INDEED a horrific crime, my work through these 14 years have slowly and
surely convinced me that 9/11 has not been FULLY and PROPERLY
investigated as a crime and that is what I have attempted to do in this
book.

Using clear and objectively verifiable facts collected
painstakingly over several years, the book shows why and how the
official 9/11 commission report has (miserably) failed to do a fair,
transparent and objective analysis of the 9/11 crime and thereby failed
to fix responsibility and accountability for its actual happening.
Specifically, while I analyze events, incidents, evidence, statements,
people, institutions etc in an objective but critical manner, I must
UNDERLINE the fact that I DON’T put forward any CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
Rather I attempt to set the ground - in a clear and objective manner by
solidly critiquing the work of the official 9/11 commission and its
final report using strong evidence - for a new objective crime like
investigation. People who read this book and peruse the evidence will
surely NOT be able to defend the official 9/11 commission report, under
any circumstances what-so-ever as the EVIDENCE is solidly presented in
black and white and hits a reader on face right upfront!

While
the book builds on previous excellent work (cited in the book) with
regard 9/11 done by scholars, researchers, scientists and other
stakeholders, it differs from the existing attempts to critique the work
of the 9/11 commission in several major ways:

A) It analyses the
crime of 9/11 from first principles and thereby draws up an exhaustive
list of evidence that SHOULD have been examined, people who OUGHT to
have been interviewed in terms of how the security was breached both in
air and the ground (of the most protected place on the planet) with a
focus on stakeholders involved, and people, companies, contractors,
consultants etc associated and the key interrelationships among them.
Security companies at WTC/airports, insurers of WTC buildings, owners,
lessors and lessees etc along with enterprise architecture consultants
who worked for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and NORAD
(North American Aerospace Defense Command) and set up the key systems
(modelled on the Zachman framework who even supposedly cautioned the use
of systems based on such frameworks at FAA) among others, have been
focussed upon in a microscopic manner along with their key relationships
and interrelationships. THE CAUSAL ANALYSIS HELPS ISOLATE
RESPONSIBILITY AND FIX ACCOUNTABILITY, SOMETHING WHICH THE 9/11 REPORT
HAS FAILED TO DO.

B) It traces antecedents as far back as the
Iran Contra Affair, the October Surprise and the hearings way back in
1980s when Lee Hamilton and Dick Cheney were closely coordinating with
each other. It moves through the last stage of the Nixon Presidency,
sifts through 2 terms of the Reagan Presidency, Clinton Presidency,
George W Bush Presidency and The Obama Presidency with the George H W
Bush Presidency sandwiched between the Reagan and Clinton Presidencies.

The focus here is on pentagon policies, accounting issues and the
missing trillions, key counter terrorism policy issues and their
implementation especially after the WTC was bombed in 1993 and Tridata
Corporation (subsidiary of System Planning International) analyzed the
security breaches for the same, the major people involved in all these
decisions including those supposedly responsible (for example like James
Gorelick who supposedly issued a memo as Deputy Attorney General (DAG)
in the Clinton Administration. Interestingly, she became a future 9/11
commissioner) for building the wall between FBI and CIA, the key
inter-relationships between various people and
consultants/companies/defense contractors and especially with future
9/11 commissioners and staff along with a detailed microscopic
exposition of associated conflicts of interest etc and ramifications of
all of the above for 9/11, as an event. Again, as before every bit of
evidence including memos are presented in black and white for the
reader. There are no suppositions and inference. PLAIN SIMPLE FACTS
dominate the discourse and that would MAKE it hard for anyone to defend
the official 9/11 report.

C) There are many many more distinguishing features but let me refrain from letting the 'cats' out of the 'bags'...; and

D) Most importantly, the book does NOT advance any conspiracy
theory...it relies simply on objectively verifiable facts and provides
all such evidence upfront and black and white and raises valid questions
that could help a new objective probe and thereby fix accountability
and ultimate responsibility.

There is a lot more which I don’t
want to reveal here but I am sure you will find the book interesting
given the above and also given the fact that i have used my deep
networks across USA, Europe, Africa and Asia where I have lived and
worked with governments and private sector in various capacities.

About Me

Ramesh S Arunachalam is an Engineer MBA who has been a columnist, a filmmaker, an entrepreneur, a development practitioner, a socio-political commentator, and a strategic advisor. He has worked in several areas including financial sector and its regulation and supervision, Governance, ERP systems, infrastructure and urban development, e Governance etc. Ramesh has completed over 260 professional assignments in 28 years, working in over 560 districts of India and over 25 countries in Asia, Africa, North America, Europe and the Caribbean. His clients include governments, bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, regulators, commercial banks, investment banks, microfinance institutions, private sector firms and several other stakeholders globally. He has authored and published numerous reports/studies/papers. His blog on microfinance has been well received and he has also penned several books - The Journey of Indian Microfinance, An Idea Which Went Wrong: Commercial Microfinance in India, Where Angels Prey and Madam President: History in the Making? – all of which have received critical acclaim. His forthcoming book, 9/11: The Unanswered Questions is slated for release in September 2016.